Hi there, just a FYI

I just received this: http://pastebin.com/m54006b68

420K in size - standard configuration of SA wouldn't have even run over
this message. Also the inline image is too large for FuzzyOCR to trigger
- I would guess FuzzyOCR has the (screen) size limit as a mechanism to
reduce FPs. Anyway, if you increase focr_max_height/focr_max_width then
FuzzyOCR grabs the text out just fine - and it looks like your standard
"you're a w...r!" scam.

This is the sort of thing that always worried me. As spammer don't care
about the load their apps put on stolen PCs, they can just increase the
size of their email formats until antispam tools start to break.

Speaking of image/rtf/word attachment spam; is there any work going on
to standardize this so that the textual output of such attachments could
be fed back into SA?

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Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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